Daily Archives: April 8, 2023

2023-04-08: News Headlines

Jim McMahan (2023-04-08). Antiwar forces march on Boeing. workers.org Seattle — University of Washington students, supporters and youths of oppressed nationalities targeted by U.S. imperialism marched on the Seattle Boeing plant on March 26. The march by 150 chanting demonstrators protested on the 20-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Boeing is the Pentagon's second largest war contractor. . . . |

Kyle Anzalone (2023-04-08). US Will Threaten Europe To Implement Sanctions on Russia. news.antiwar.com The White House plans to send a clear message to its European partners in the economic war against Russia, "you are either with us or against us." Two US Treasury officials will visit European and Central Asian partners next month to demand all sanctions on Russia be implemented. Treasury officials Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson …

WSWS (2023-04-08). Oppose political censorship of antiwar views at Howard University! wsws.org We call on all students, faculty and staff members at Howard University to oppose this censorship and demand that the IYSSE be allowed to hold its planned meeting on campus.

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-07). Report: Saudis and Houthis Might Renew Ceasefire Soon. news.antiwar.com Warring parties in Yemen could soon sign a deal to renew a ceasefire that would last until the end of 2023, The New Arab reported Thursday. A ceasefire that took effect in April 2022 expired last October. While there has been an uptick in fighting on the ground, there have still been no Saudi airstrikes …

Walt Zlotow, Antiwar. (2023-04-07). Africa 'All Out,' 54-0, Against Joining Biden's Proxy War On Russia. popularresistance.org When President Biden announced sanctions against Russia over their February, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, he called it a battle of democracy over tyranny. He expected Africa to rally to the US lead. | Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa's 54 countries as joined US sanctions against Russia. Many are neutral; some even supporting Russia's war to prevent NATO's eastward expansion to Russia's borders and gain independence of Ukrainian Donbas from Kyiv aggression that has killed thousands of Ukrainians there. | Why unsurprisingly? For starters, the US was delusional Africa would follow America's proxy war on Russia.

WSWS (2023-04-07). IYSSE holds anti-war meeting in Sydney, Australia. wsws.org One attendee commented: "None of the discussion in the media on the war in Ukraine, or the rapidly moving preparations for military conflict with China, provides any serious explanation of how we've got to this point and the insane consequences for humanity."




ecns.cn (2023-04-08). Insights丨Spanish Scholar: China and Europe are striving to strengthen cooperation. ecns.cn Recently, European leaders have visited China one after another, aiming to clarify that Europe is not intending to "decouple" with China. China and Europe are striving to strengthen cooperation and reciprocity in both economic and political fields. I think EU-China relations are very important because it can help promote global peace and development.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-08). New Campaign To Reinvigorate the Establishment of Zone of Peace in Our Americas. orinocotribune.com By Bill Hackwell — April 4, 2023 | Today in a press conference in Washington DC the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with key allies launched a popular collective campaign to promote the urgent need to establish a Zone of Peace in Our Americas. The press conference coincided with similar events that took place in Havana, Cuba; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. | The "Zone of Peace" concept emerged from the January 29, 2014, meeting of the heads of state and governments of the Community of | Washington DC | Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), all of which declared Latin America and the Caribbean should…

WSWS (2023-04-08). Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers. wsws.org The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform.

_____ (2023-04-07). Finland Joins NATO in Foreboding But Fitting Historical Coming Out. strategic-culture.org Biden and other NATO cheerleaders celebrating "peace" and "security" with Finland joining the bloc this week is not just grotesque. It is a foreboding warning of a more disastrous war. | During the Cold War decades, Finland prided itself in adopting a non-aligned position in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Of course, there were good reasons for this Finnish nominal neutrality. The Nordic country not only shared a long border with Soviet Russia, thereby making its neutrality an essential Moscow requisite for security. But in addition, too, Finland bore the shame of having been defeated by…

African Stream (2023-04-07). AFRICOM: Securing African or U.S. Interests? towardfreedom.org The United States Africa Command—or AFRICOM—was founded in 2007. But it's failed to bring peace and security. Major failures in Somalia, Libya and elsewhere have left many Africans suspecting it exists only to serve U.S. interests. African Stream reports.

Amy Goodman (2023-04-07). Black Tennessee Lawmaker Justin Jones Discusses His Expulsion From State House. truthout.org We speak with Justin Jones, one of two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by a Republican supermajority in the Tennessee state House of Representatives Thursday for peacefully protesting gun violence in the chamber last week as thousands rallied at the Capitol to demand gun control after the Covenant elementary school shooting in Nashville. A vote to expel their white colleague who joined them in… |

ecns.cn (2023-04-08). Insights丨Spanish Scholar: China and Europe are striving to strengthen cooperation. ecns.cn Recently, European leaders have visited China one after another, aiming to clarify that Europe is not intending to "decouple" with China. China and Europe are striving to strengthen cooperation and reciprocity in both economic and political fields. I think EU-China relations are very important because it can help promote global peace and development.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-04-08). New Campaign To Reinvigorate the Establishment of Zone of Peace in Our Americas. orinocotribune.com By Bill Hackwell — April 4, 2023 | Today in a press conference in Washington DC the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) along with key allies launched a popular collective campaign to promote the urgent need to establish a Zone of Peace in Our Americas. The press conference coincided with similar events that took place in Havana, Cuba; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. | The "Zone of Peace" concept emerged from the January 29, 2014, meeting of the heads of state and governments of the Community of | Washington DC | Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), all of which declared Latin America and the Caribbean should…

WSWS (2023-04-08). Following mass shooting in Nashville, fascistic Tennessee Republicans expel two Democratic lawmakers. wsws.org The gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the lower Tennessee House expelled two freshman African American Democratic lawmakers, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for leading a peaceful student protest demanding gun reform.

_____ (2023-04-07). Finland Joins NATO in Foreboding But Fitting Historical Coming Out. strategic-culture.org Biden and other NATO cheerleaders celebrating "peace" and "security" with Finland joining the bloc this week is not just grotesque. It is a foreboding warning of a more disastrous war. | During the Cold War decades, Finland prided itself in adopting a non-aligned position in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. Of course, there were good reasons for this Finnish nominal neutrality. The Nordic country not only shared a long border with Soviet Russia, thereby making its neutrality an essential Moscow requisite for security. But in addition, too, Finland bore the shame of having been defeated by…

African Stream (2023-04-07). AFRICOM: Securing African or U.S. Interests? towardfreedom.org The United States Africa Command—or AFRICOM—was founded in 2007. But it's failed to bring peace and security. Major failures in Somalia, Libya and elsewhere have left many Africans suspecting it exists only to serve U.S. interests. African Stream reports.

Amy Goodman (2023-04-07). Black Tennessee Lawmaker Justin Jones Discusses His Expulsion From State House. truthout.org We speak with Justin Jones, one of two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by a Republican supermajority in the Tennessee state House of Representatives Thursday for peacefully protesting gun violence in the chamber last week as thousands rallied at the Capitol to demand gun control after the Covenant elementary school shooting in Nashville. A vote to expel their white colleague who joined them in… |

Chris Walker (2023-04-07). Critics Decry Apparent Racism in Expulsion of 2 Dems From Tennessee Legislature. truthout.org On Thursday night, Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee state House of Representatives expelled two of three Democratic legislators who engaged in a peaceful protest on the House floor a week prior, in a move that observers have condemned as both authoritarian and racist. The move leaves tens of thousands of constituents in Memphis and Nashville without representation during the final weeks of… |

Michael Harris (2023-04-07). Tuesday 4/25: 11th Annual Pan African Global Trade and Investment Conference – Media Event and Luncheon. indybay.org International Peace Rose Garden | California State Capitol…

Pivot to Peace. (2023-04-07). Protesters Gather As Kevin McCarthy Meets With Taiwan's Tsai Ing-Wen. popularresistance.org On April 5th at 10 am protesters from the Chinese community, Pivot to Peace, CODEPINK, the ANSWER Coalition and other communities gathered at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA as U.S. Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy and other politicians met with Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-Wen. In the final stop of her Americas tour, Tsai's meeting with McCarthy signals yet another provocation on U.S.-China relations. This comes just months after McCarthy's predecessor, Nancy Pelosi deliberately violated the "One China Policy" agreed upon in the joint U.S.-China Shanghai Communique by visiting Taiwan.

Staff (2023-04-07). "A Public Lynching": Justin Jones, Black Tennessee Lawmaker, Responds to Expulsion from State House. democracynow.org We speak with Justin Jones, one of two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by a Republican supermajority in the Tennessee state House of Representatives Thursday for peacefully protesting gun violence in the chamber last week as thousands rallied at the Capitol to demand gun control after the Covenant elementary school shooting in Nashville. A vote to expel their white colleague who joined them in solidarity failed. "They thought by expelling us they would silence us, they would silence our movements that we're part of, but in fact they've amplified it, because the nation can see how racist they are. The na…

Staff (2023-04-08). La educación cubana: un referente a nivel internacional. cubadebate.cu Hasta el cierre de febrero del presente año, el Ministerio de Educación de Cuba, cuenta actualmente, con 543 colaboradores distribuidos en trece países de àÅfrica, América Latina y el Caribe y Oceanía ( Bahamas, Argentina, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panamá, Honduras, México, Venezuela, Guinea Ecuatorial, Sudáfrica, República àÅrabe Saharaui, Islas Reunión y Australia) donde se han promovido varios proyectos, entre ellos y el más importante el de alfabetización, a través del método "Yo, sí puedo", "Yo, sí puedo seguir".

Jesús Inojosa (2023-04-07). ICJ May Review UK's Fraudulent 1899 Paris Arbitration Regarding Essequibo Region. orinocotribune.com The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that the fraud committed by the United Kingdom through the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899, by which it stole the Essequibo territory from Venezuela, may go under review. The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, welcomed this decision and read a statement by the Venezuelan government ratifying its adherence to the Geneva Agreement signed in 1966 to settle Venezuela's territorial dispute regarding the Essequibo region. | "Venezuela celebrates that the Court's incidental sentence today validates our arguments: firstly, by recognizing that the illicit and f…

scorinoco (2023-04-07). President Maduro: Venezuela Will Continue Its Historical Struggle for Essequibo. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that the Venezuelan people will continue to respect the Geneva Agreement and pursue their historical struggle for the Essequibo region. | "The Venezuelan people will continue to struggle firmly and tirelessly in their defense of the historic Geneva Agreement and the territorial integrity of our nation," President Maduro stated on social media on Thursday, April 6. "The truth is with us, the Essequibo belongs to Venezuela!" | Los venezolanos y las venezolanas seguiremos la lucha incansable y firme por defender el respeto al histórico Acuerdo de Ginebra y la territ…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-04-07). Gobierno de Venezuela celebra sentencia incidental de la CIJ. telesurtv.net Corte Internacional de Justicia de La Haya podrá revisar conducta fraudulenta del Reino Unido en el Laudo Arbitral de 1899.

teleSUR, nama, JDO (2023-04-07). Corte Internacional de Justicia rechaza solicitud de Venezuela sobre el Esequibo. telesurtv.net Meses atrás, Caracas pidió al tribunal no admitir un alegato de la República Cooperativa de Guyana sobre ese territorio, por considerar que desconoce el Acuerdo de Ginebra.

teleSUR, rzr, JDO (2023-04-07). Venezuela y Guinea-Bissau estrechan vínculos bilaterales. telesurtv.net La visita a Caracas de una delegación del país africano sirvió para fortalecer la cooperación económico-comercial y profundizar el intercambio cultural.

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